| Course | Title | Instructor | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASIANAM 54 | ASAM STORIES | LEE, J. | This course introduces you to literature written by Asian Americans throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries. Asian American authors wrote with a clear understanding that their works challenged divergent, even contested, visions of what it meant to be an American. We will pay special attention to the political, economic, and social constraints during the time of their historical production and reception. we will examine how Asian American literary work both reflected and transformed the expectations of their day, and in doing so helped to reimagine the terms of social belonging. |
| ASIANAM 114 | ASNAM DOCUMTRY | CHO, J. | We begin with the elements and evolution of documentary film language and genres in the United States as a foundation for understanding how Asian American media artists utilize mediums of film and video toward particular communication goals. We will also trace movements of documentary subjects and techniques in the context of Asian Americans’ historical exclusions, racialized representations, and social roles in nonfiction films. As we view a range of works by and about Asian Americans, we will consider how various makers engage strategies for production style and content, target audiences, subjectivity, emotional truth in evolving environments of technology and access, social movements, ethnic notions. Students will pose their critical understanding of cinematic language and social meaning to the considerations and challenges a creator or storyteller faces to record lived experiences, and acts of stewardship for a documentary film. |
| ASIANAM 116 | ASIANAM POP CULTURE | LEE, J. | This class examines the relationship between Asian Americans and mass culture. While we delve into how Asians have historically been represented in US popular culture, the focus will be on how Asian Americans/diasporans have represented themselves and their communities in different pop cultural media. While most people tend to think of pop culture as offering an escape from the “real world,” the premise of this class is that popular culture very much reflects, resists, and shapes how we approach the most pressing issues of our day. In our discussions and analysis, we will approach 21c Asian American popular culture as being actively engaged with the social, political, and economic upheavals and uncertainties of the era in which it was made. The syllabus will be organized around several key topics, such as K-pop, affect, the impact of COVID-19, anti-Blackness. Class materials may include literature, memoir, and graphic novels; film and television; popular music; visual and digital media. Students will be expected to use Discord and Spotify. |
| ASIANAM 137 | ASIANAM LABOR | FUJITA-RONY, D. | This course will explore the history of Asian Americans and work from the nineteenth century to the present. Topics of discussion will include migration, colonialism, family, social organization, work culture, and activism. Requirements will include a five-page paper, a midterm exam, a final exam, a small group project, and regular class participation. |
| ASIANAM 150 | BOLLYWOOD FILM | SHROFF, B. | This course examines how the global reach of popular Hindi-language cinema of India referred to as Bollywood film creates new representations of nationalism and national narratives. Increasing travel, changing modes of life and material expansion even within India and within the Indian diasporas have generated transnational and international movements of people, media and commodities and Bollywood is a major player in these movements and markets. The masculinist space of nation as represented in older films is transformed as gender and sexuality intersect with social categories of class and particularly caste and religion. As an increasingly transnational and global product, Bollywood’s glittering, glitzy dance and song routines reconstruct femininity and masculinity, gender and sexuality, and family identities in ways that attempt to challenge patriarchal, and nationalist discourses. Selected films include The Lover Wins the Bride, Monsoon Wedding and My Name Is Khan. As a counterpoint to Bollywood's conventions of gender production, we analyze some independently produced films that deploy the language of Bollywood, and attempt to contest its conflicted messages of gender and nation. |
| ASIANAM 151C | KOREAN AMER STUDIES | CHO, J. | This course introduces histories of Korean Americans from the early 20th century to the present. We will investigate how social, cultural, political, and economic forces in the United States, in Korea, and around the world impact ways in which Korean Americans develop their identities and communities. The first half of the course examines autobiographical accounts on early migration to the U.S., ethnographic study on racial identity, history of U.S.-Korea military and cultural relations, immigration factors, and intergenerational religious practices. We will further study how Korean Americans have and continue to negotiate intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, in projects of political and community organizing, adoptee social movements, undocumented youth, and fluidity in “ways to be Korean” consciousness-work throughout the Korean diaspora. Class meetings will primarily be dedicated to discussion and small group work, with occasional media screenings and possible guest speakers. |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 199 | INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 200B | CONTEMP ISS ASAM ST | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | QUINTANA, I. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | WU, J. | |
| ASIANAM 290 | DIRECTED RESEARCH | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | LEE, J. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | FUJITA-RONY, D. | |
| ASIANAM 291 | DIRECTED READING | STAFF | |
| ASIANAM 399 | UNIVERSITY TEACHING | LEE, J. |